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Monday, June 3, 2013

Playing with Dishes

We spent all day Saturday at the auction! We bought lots of treasures, visited with our friends, and enjoyed the day. I bought a box of tea cups and saucers for $15, I think! Usually I have my receipt from the auction, but their printer was out of ink. They will mail it to me when they get a chance...anyway...doing a rough count, there are about 58 cups and 34 saucers. Most of them don't match, but I can use them in projects that it won't matter.

They mark your box with your bidding number...I was number 71.

Now, to get them out of the box!

I was so happy to find so many cups with a rose pattern on them...my favorite!

Here are several with the same pattern...all made in Japan. I left them "as is" where you could see just how dusty they were!

This was just an odd cup, but I loved the stamp on the bottom. Sometimes I display stuff upside down because the markings on the bottom are so pretty.

I was able to match up a few...

and there was more than one of some...

When you buy at the auction, everything has to be cleaned as soon as you get it home.

There was eight of these saucers.

Almost everything in the box was made in Japan.

Well, time to get these all washed up. I have another box of dishes from the auction to unpack this morning. They are gorgeous....I plan to do a tablescape with them later this week.

35 comments:

Hi Penny,Wow you got a great deal on the tea cups and saucers. I know you will find lots of cute things to do with them. So pretty and what a steal!!!! I love seeing pictures of your sweet kitchen in the back ground. Have a great week.Kris

This is terrific - please share at Tea In The Garden. These are perfect when you have ladies over. I only use my teapots and cups and saucers from China when I do teas because if one gets broken there are no hard "feelings" like if it is a favorite ENGLISH one!

Hello Penny, what a fantastic find you have here! I think you got yourself a bargain. And how fun to sort through and clean for the first time. The rose tea cups are very pretty! They will make a great table scape. I saw in the box, one English tea cup made by Colclough. I have that one too.You have such a bright and cheery kitchen! I love it : )Hugs,Terri

Penny, O My!! All are so pretty!! What a buy!! Makes me wonder if they came from a Tea Room or just and avid tea cup collector...We are relaxing this vacation but i may be taking on my Powder Room too. I ordered wall paper border on Ebay that should be coming today so we may be ripping the Powder Room apart tomorrow. We are having a nice week with temps. in the 70's which is perfect for me!!